Rule Based POS Tagger for Marathi Text

Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging is the process of assigning a part-of-speech like noun, verb, adjective, adverb, or other lexical class marker to each word in a sentence. This paper presents a POS Tagger for Marathi language text using Rule based approach, which will assign part of speech to the words in a sentence given as an input. We describe our system as the one which tokenizes the string into tokens and then comparing tokens with the WordNet to assign their particular tags. There are many ambiguous words in Marathi language and we resolve the ambiguity of these words using Marathi grammar rules. KeywordsPOS-Part Of Speech, WordNet, Tagset, Corpus.